The Hunter
It has been an entire week since the Shane Strikers drove away Jack & his Hyper slingers from Botton & Spinx Cavern.
Eli stood just outside, with his blaster in his hand, & his back to the Hideout. "Where are you?" demanded Eli as he loaded Banger.
Leo appeared behind Eli from atop the Hideout, he aimed his blaster, & fired Trip at Eli. "Watch out Dad!" warned Tim who sat on a nearby rock, watching the duel.
Eli bent backwards & fired Banger. Banger knocked away Trip & zoomed at Leo. Leo jumped up & fired Weaver who pulled him to safety on the ground. "Tim," wined Leo "you're supposed to be watching the duel, not helping dad!" Leo then fired Star, but Eli fired Rocky who easily knocked away Star, & he nearly hit Leo.
Leo then jumped onto the side of a giant tree & he began climbing it like the Shadow Clan. He fire SparkPlug but Joules zapped him & he returned to protoform. Leo avoided Joules & he continued climbing, Eli fired a mega-morphed Buzzsaw who cut the branch of the tree, that Leo was climbing, causing it to collapse. Leo fired Soap & he grabbed on to his tentacles to lower him down. Leo fired Prize but Eli easily dodged the slug. Leo landed & fired Flight, Eli fired Chiller who froze Flight in a cube of ice. "Ready to give up?" asked Eli
"Never!" declared Leo, as he fired X into the air.
X used his Jambler move, both Eli's & Leo's blasters shut down. "I guess we have a tie." said Eli, putting away his blaster.
"Not quite." said Leo as he threw Heat at Eli. Heat velacimorphed & hit Eli. Leo the grabbed Save & readied to throw him. "Do you give up?" asked Leo
Eli reached behind his back "Um, no." he said, he pulled out a slug slingshot, he grabbed Burpy.
Leo threw Save & he velacimorphed as Eli launched Burpy with the slingshot. The 2 slugs raced at each other before Save was easily knocked aside by Burpy. Burpy then trapped Leo with flames. "Ok ok, I give, I give!" surrendered Leo
Burpy then turned back into protoform & he hopped back to Eli. "That was awesome!" cheered Tim as he ran up to Eli "You totally kicked Leo's butt!"
"No he didn't!" said Leo angrily
"Yeah he did, he totally beat you!" clarified Tim
"Whatever." grumbled Leo
Eli laughed "Leave him alone Tim, I beat him pretty good." Tim chuckled in agreement. Eli then turned to Leo "But Leo you shouldn't use your abilities like that, someone could see." said Eli
"But no one did." sassed Leo
"Hey Leo." greeted Christ who just showed up with Quiver & Garo.
Leo freaked out "Hey, guys!" said a nervous Leo "What are you doing here?"
"Don't you remember?" asked Christi
"We're going to go see a SlugBall game." reminded Garo
"Oh right I know that, I'll be right there." apologized Leo
Leo headed to the garage where Walker was waiting for him, luckily because he was inside the Jambler attack could not affect him. Leo got on him & they rode off for the SlugBall game.
Meanwhile, Brink talked to man in his office. The man there is tall, he appears to be very athletic, he has spikes orange red hair, he has high tech sunglasses on, a black shirt, a black jacket, with black pants & gloves, his blaster is black with grey linings, & he has a grey bandolier as well as a belt. "So am I clear?" asked Brink "You will get your money after you have eliminated the problem."
The man laughed "Just have the money ready, for when I return." The man then left the office.
The Shane Strikers were passing through a town trying to get to the SlugBall match, as the man watched them from atop a building. He pulled out a sniper blaster & he aimed right at an oblivious Leo. "So what were you & your dad doing before we got there?" asked Christi to Leo
"We were dueling." answered Leo
"I'm guessing you lost." said Garo
"Yeah, I sure did." confirmed Leo, just then the man fired a Hyper Speedstinger.
The Speedstinger hit Leo in the back of the head, Leo fell to the ground unconscious, as the slug ratcheted around & disappeared. "Leo! Are you alright?" asked Christi as they all pulled out their blasters.
Christi shook Leo but he didn't wake up, SparkPlug hopped out of his slug tube & zapped Leo awake. "What happened?!" asked Leo as soon as he woke up.
"Not sure." answered Christi
The man peered through his blaster to see Leo fine & his friends are reading their blasters. "Looks like you got lucky, kid." grudged the man as he left.
After that Leo figured that it must have be some sort of accident, so they all left for the SlugBall match. They got there just in tube for the game to start. They watched as the 2 teams faced off scoring goals after the other & epic crashes into obstacles. "This is epic!" cheered Quiver, as a SlugBall player was tackled.
"You bet it is!" agreed Leo as one of the players was hit by a Rammstone.
They watched the game up to the very end, before they decided to leave. "That was totally awesome!" said Garo as he hopped on Charger.
"I loved all the crashes & slinging." praised Leo as he hopped on Walker.
They decided to head to the SlugIt but as they had to pass through the same town that Leo was hit by the Speedstinger. The man from earlier watched them from atop a building, he loaded a Hyper Grenuke, & waited for the Shane Strikers to get closer. He fired the slug it velacimorphed & exploded in the middle of the Shane Strikers sending them flying in 4 different directions. "Is everyone ok?!" asked Leo, he picked himself up.
"I'm ok." answered Garo
"Me too." responded Christi
"Same here." answered Quiver, just then the man fired another Hyper Grenuke at them.
"Quick, scatter!" ordered Leo as he sprinted into a nearby alley way, as his friends scattered off too.
Leo looked around and he saw the man, on the other side of the street, firing a slug at Quiver. Leo checked to see if anyone was around, he then hopped onto & climbed the building like a gecko. He jumped to the roof & fired Gasher at the man. Gasher sliced the sniper blaster in 2. The man was surprised by the Thresher, he looked around to see Leo loading Trip. The grabbed his blaster & hit Leo with a Hyper Hop Rock, it sent Leo flying backwards, near the edge if the roof, & his blaster fell to the alley below. Leo checked behind him to see Garo returning fire at the man, who was trying to avoid being slugged. Leo grabbed Weaver & threw at his blaster, Weaver velacimorphed, grabbed the blaster, & reeled back up into Leo's hand. Leo grabbed the blaster, spun around, & fired Trip. Trip tangled around the man's waist, trapping his arms, & he fell to the street but he fell on a mammoth mecha-beast, that broke his fall, & then he fell onto the street. Leo smirked & hopped down from the roof, when no one was looking, he loaded Heat & aimed it the man as he picked himself up. Leo began charging his blaster "I would stay down if I where you." threatened Leo
The man laughed "That's funny, kid."
"Who are you?" asked Leo, as the rest of the Shane Strikers arrived.
"I'm the bounty hunter that Hyper sent to take you down." he answered
"Yeah, I figured out that part already." said Leo "But I don't know your name."
"The name's Hunter J." he introduced, he then sweep kicked Leo.
He then fired off a Hyper Hoverbug that snatched him up & flew him to safety on top of a roof. He turned around & fired a Hyper Tazerling which hit the mammoth mecha, the mecha roared as it was activated & it charged forward, but the Shane Strikers dove out of the way. Hunter J or just J, fired a Hyper Strang, the slug spun around hitting Leo & Quiver, it then tried to hit Christi but she dove out of the way, as the slug continued to spin around them. J fired a Hyper Armashelt that exploded when it smashed into Garo, the blast was so strong that all 4 of them were sent in different directions. "This guy is really getting annoying." grumbled Leo, he picked himself up just in time to avoid a Hyper Flaringo.
Hunter J hopped to another roof & fired 3 Hyper Hop Rocks. Garo fired CaveIn who smacked away 2 of the slugs, the 3rd however nearly hit Quiver. Leo ran to the alley closest to him, he quickly climbed up the wall, got to the roof, & fired Soaker. Soaker, well, soaked Hinter J & pushed him backwards. Leo hopped from roof to roof to get to Hunter J, as J fired slug after slug at him. Leo avoided every slug by dodging, or firing a slug of his own at them. Hunter fired a Hyper Frostcrawler that froze a roof top that Leo jumped on. Leo slipped & slide on the ice until he fell off the roof. Hunter J smirked thinking that Leo was defeated, he then turned & ran away to collect his paycheck. But what he didn't know was that Leo was perfectly safe by gripping the side of the building. Save looked around & spotted J running off. "There he is!" declared Save, pointing to J.
Leo jumped from wall to wall until he passed up an oblivious Hunter J. Leo jumped into J's path & he fired Prize at the surprised J. Prize velacimorphed & used his Crystalist move on J. The crystals encased J's entire body except for his head. "Looks like the Hunter became the hunted." jeered a victorious Leo, putting away his blaster.
Leo took a seat as he waited for his friends to finally show up, they eventually did, they called cavern security, & had them take Hunter J to Stalagmite 18 (The reinforced Stalagmite 17 is now Stalagmite 18). "Nice job, Leo." commented Christi
"Thanks," said Leo "I'm just glad that's over."
But little to anyone's knowledge, a thin shadowy guy with spiky hair sat at a computer with a strange red eyed slug on his shoulder, they watched Leo & his friends on the computer screen in a dark room. "Oh it is far from over." sneered the guy, as he replayed the videos of Leo climbing walls & velacimorphing slugs just by throwing them. "This is going to be fun." He sneered, as he strange slug laughed creepily.
I hoped you guys like this chapter, I know it's a bit shorter then the most recent ones.
Please leave a review, and I would once again like to thank PLAINAWESOME for lending me an OC. (the guy at the computer).